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When Saskatchewan's government this week announced plans to renegotiate potash royalties, Potash-Corp share prices dropped five per cent in 24 hours. This is not surprising. Investors know the government is not renegotiating potash royalties in order to reduce them.

Mosaic Co., the second-largest producer of potash in Saskatchewan, says the budget changes announced Wednesday that will cost potash companies $150 million this year won't affect the $1.7-billion expansion project at Mosaic's K3 mine at Esterhazy announced last week.

Shares in Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. and other potash producers were under pressure Thursday, a day after Saskatchewan announced budget changes that will collect an additional $150 million from the industry.

A change in the province's potash royalty regime in the 2015-16 budget will net the Sask. Party government $150 million this year, Finance Minister Ken Krawetz announced Wednesday. The government also promised to revamp the province's complex potash royalty scheme in consultation with the industry over the next year or two.

Wednesday's budget contained both good and bad news for business. The good news is two new tax incentive programs to encourage job creation and capital investment in the manufacturing and processing sector and capital expansion in the steelmaking sector.

British Columbia's treefellers are among those who stand to benefit the most as Canada sets up a yuan offshore-trading centre that will start transactions this month, according to the province's finance minister.

The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Monday as the latest reading on U.S. manufacturing showed slowing expansion and the Chinese central bank moved to spark that country's slowing economy through a rate cut.